I doubt it, but it's probably getting extra attention because it's the first big-budget game I remember with a really in-your-face push of woke. Albeit I think some of it was in BF1 if I remember correctly, at least there was some parts about women. Only at the very least slightly more historically accurate.
I wouldn't put Mass Effect Andromeda higher than Gears 5 or Horizon either. I suspect it's just there because no one liked the game.
That and BFV rewrote actual history to the point that some of even the woke reviewers out there learned of the real mission to destroy the heavy water factories in Norway and the fact real people died undertaking that mission that rewriting it so it's a mother/daughter team was completely disrespectful.
Especially since there were real women who served on the eastern front that would have made for "woke" roles that were actually faithful to history. They could have highlighted the Night Witches or the woman who bought a tank to avenge her husband or the female snipers of Stalingrad. But they didn't. It was a lazy rewrite of history that dishonored the memories of those who gave it all as to why I never even touched it.
BF1 I think had one story that involved a Bedouin woman which doesn't fit with their culture at all, but things like revolts sometimes has people taking on unusual roles as well. It's just not something I've heard a lot about, but I'm not an expert on WWI. I should have studied it more as it was the cause of all the wars since, but I was much more into the Cold War era...
Is that showing Cyberpunk higher then Horizon? I've not played Cyberpunk yet, mostly do to time but I was planning of playing it. Is Cyberpunk actually woke?
There was a bit of barely woke stuff in Witcher 3, like a women blacksmith plot that made literally no sense other then feminist bullshit, but I can't see the same developers making a full woke game.
Having played it: probably not anymore than you would expect for a Cyberpunk setting. Sure, I see people make a big deal about, for example, people in universe having sex changes. But this is a cyberpunk world. You and most other people are cyborgs, who can swap out entire body parts, download your consciousness into entirely new bodies, and use bio-tech to create any sort of flesh tissue known or unknown. Changing your sex would be trivial by comparison.
But at the same time, I cant think of the game making any sort of big deal about things like gender or race (the guy who betrays you and sets the whole story into motion is a fat black man. What woke dev would ever show a black person in a bad light?). And most of the politics in the game are done from within its own world, and stuff that exist outside of it isnt any different from typical cyberpunk fair (ie: "Corporations Bad, Hyper-Consumerism, You are a replaceable cog," etc).
The issue is that people remember TLOU2 for being an all around trash fire before they remember it for being woke. Battlefield V is probably less woke but it is also in all other aspects entirely forgettable.
I doubt it, but it's probably getting extra attention because it's the first big-budget game I remember with a really in-your-face push of woke. Albeit I think some of it was in BF1 if I remember correctly, at least there was some parts about women. Only at the very least slightly more historically accurate.
I wouldn't put Mass Effect Andromeda higher than Gears 5 or Horizon either. I suspect it's just there because no one liked the game.
That and BFV rewrote actual history to the point that some of even the woke reviewers out there learned of the real mission to destroy the heavy water factories in Norway and the fact real people died undertaking that mission that rewriting it so it's a mother/daughter team was completely disrespectful.
Especially since there were real women who served on the eastern front that would have made for "woke" roles that were actually faithful to history. They could have highlighted the Night Witches or the woman who bought a tank to avenge her husband or the female snipers of Stalingrad. But they didn't. It was a lazy rewrite of history that dishonored the memories of those who gave it all as to why I never even touched it.
BF1 I think had one story that involved a Bedouin woman which doesn't fit with their culture at all, but things like revolts sometimes has people taking on unusual roles as well. It's just not something I've heard a lot about, but I'm not an expert on WWI. I should have studied it more as it was the cause of all the wars since, but I was much more into the Cold War era...
Is that showing Cyberpunk higher then Horizon? I've not played Cyberpunk yet, mostly do to time but I was planning of playing it. Is Cyberpunk actually woke? There was a bit of barely woke stuff in Witcher 3, like a women blacksmith plot that made literally no sense other then feminist bullshit, but I can't see the same developers making a full woke game.
Having played it: probably not anymore than you would expect for a Cyberpunk setting. Sure, I see people make a big deal about, for example, people in universe having sex changes. But this is a cyberpunk world. You and most other people are cyborgs, who can swap out entire body parts, download your consciousness into entirely new bodies, and use bio-tech to create any sort of flesh tissue known or unknown. Changing your sex would be trivial by comparison.
But at the same time, I cant think of the game making any sort of big deal about things like gender or race (the guy who betrays you and sets the whole story into motion is a fat black man. What woke dev would ever show a black person in a bad light?). And most of the politics in the game are done from within its own world, and stuff that exist outside of it isnt any different from typical cyberpunk fair (ie: "Corporations Bad, Hyper-Consumerism, You are a replaceable cog," etc).
The issue is that people remember TLOU2 for being an all around trash fire before they remember it for being woke. Battlefield V is probably less woke but it is also in all other aspects entirely forgettable.